Secondly, I want to encourage you all to continue supporting the Japanese economy by buying Japanese tea products when the new harvest comes out. If Japanese teas aren't... (I'm so sorry for this) your cup of tea (groan), they also make some pretty nifty teapots, tea cups, tea canisters, etc. that you can use for whatever teas you like.

I know some of you may be concerned about radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant incident contaminating your Japanese tea, but fear not! While some crops in areas in the vicinity of the reactor have demonstrated unsafe levels of contamination, the tea-producing regions of Japan are quite far to the south and are extremely unlikely to be adversely affected.

I understand if you don't just take my word for it, though. Fortunately there is some excellent discussion on the issue going on over at TeaChat; I suspect this thread will be updated as more information becomes known.

I agree that Japanese tea will still be safe to consume. I am not going to stop enjoying something I love due to circumstances out of human control. God has everyone of us numbered and is in control of when we leave this this life and there isn't anything we can or cannot do to change that.

You have a wonderful blog. Because you are a tea lover I hope you will find interesting the website for Darjeeling tea www.darjeelingteaxpress.comThey have a very large choice of teas and samples. I would be happy if you could write a review of some of these rich and healthy teas. Do let me know how we can organize this.